Lessons Learned on Storing Food Wisely To past generations the fields, barns, gardens, and the woods were the food producers. Your own pantry or root cellar was the grocery store. How you stored what you gained from your production made the difference between your grocery store shelves being empty or unusable and being able to walk in and …
Is Black Seed a Cure All? A friend recently told me she was trying black seed as an herbal remedy for a particular very difficult health issue. I had never heard of it before, so she directed me to the article linked below and I did a little more research of my own. Although studies …
The Basics of Survival Medicine When I saw this article, I knew I had to share it with you. So often survival medicine is about first aid and staying safe from a pandemic. It really is so much more than that. Once the wounds are dressed, new set of issues arise. Dehydration, malnutrition, preventing infections, …
Healthy Garden Soil If you are starting a new vegetable garden, or already have an established garden, you may wonder what the best soil for growing vegetables is. Things like the right amendments and the right soil pH for vegetables can help your vegetable garden grow much better. In general, the ground for your vegetable …
Building the Mental Fortitude for Survival Mental fitness is imperative for survival. If you don’t believe you will survive you won’t. If you believe you will survive your chances of actually doing so jump up dramatically. Building mental fortitude isn’t as simple as one might think. Actually believing in yourself enough to honestly believe you …
Single Parent Prepping As single parents we carry even more than a double load. Not only do you play the part of both Mom and Dad, but in order to measure up you must carry that load better than would a two parent family. The disintegration of the parent’s marriage or partnership is difficult enough …
Distilling Water at Home As most of us know there was a water crisis in Ohio in 2014. After a few weeks Toledo residents were being told their water was safe once again. But news sources told us it was not over. The algae producing toxins in the water didn’t reach their peak for another month! Boiling the water didn’t help in …
Campfire Bacon & Eggs Sack It’s the first thing in the morning and you crawl out of your tent hungry. The campfire has burned down to ambers and is perfect for making a breakfast in a sack. With no clean up afterward and the added benefit of re-stoking the fire to begin your day this …
Vegetables to Plant Mid-Summer Spring is a busy time for everyone and not everyone had the time and energy this spring to get their garden started. In that position most people think, “oh well, next year” but nope! You don’t have to wait until next year! The good news is that there are summer vegetables and …
Is it Time to Step it Up? There is a lot going on in our world today. Natural disasters, un-curable diseases, war, terrorism, increased tension between governments and their citizens and more. There has always been world drama but never so many things at once. History tells us something is going to break. But where or when is the constant unknown. …
